Later...
"You sure you're okay, sir?" Max asked Uncle Henry.
"I'll be alright, son," Uncle Henry smiled. "I appreciate you looking out for me though."
"I just thought maybe you'd like an extra helping hand with your condition." Max smiled back.
"That's mighty thoughtful of you." Uncle Henry smiled back.
"I try, sir." Max replied.
Mike glowered in the background as his eyes flashed green again. Toto whimpered and whined, scratching against the window as he had to stay back home as Aunt Em began to take Dorothy to see the doctor. Scruffy could understand why Toto was upset.
"I guess we have to stay here too?" Clifford asked.
"It looks like it," Dot frowned. "Sorry, Clifford."
"I don't mind staying," Snow White said as she curled up in a ball to get some sleep. "Helps me catch up on my sleep a little."
"You almost remind me of Daffodil." Clifford said to the white kitten.
"But what if they need our help in this adventure?" Scruffy asked.
"Then we'll find a way to sneak out when Uncle Henry isn't looking." Dot smirked a bit with a wink.
"That sounds sneaky." Clifford replied.
"Ah, relax," Dot told the red dog. "We do this sorta thing all the time."
"Yeah," Scruffy smiled. "It's all part of the adventure."
"Hmm... Maybe..." Clifford replied thoughtfully.
"Bye, Uncle Henry!" Dorothy called out as her aunt rode away with her and her new friends as the horse took them away from the farm.
"Y'all get yourselves back here by dark!" Uncle Henry called back.
"We will!" Dorothy promised.
"You can count on it!" Vaz added.
"Come on, giddy-up!" Aunt Em told the horse. "There you go."
"Okay, come this way with me, guys." Toto told the other dogs as he came to lead them somewhere as Uncle Henry decided to take care of some chores while the girls would be gone.
"Lead the way, Toto." Dot smiled.
Toto soon came to a window that was a little broken before he was able to crack it open. Scruffy, Dot, and Clifford soon followed after Toto to get outside the window to catch up with their humans.
"Wait for me, Dorothy!" Toto barked as he rushed out the window to catch up with Aunt Em and Dorothy.
"Wait for us, guys!" Scruffy barked as he soon rushed out the window along with Clifford and Dot who included Snow White.
The kids soon looked over to see their pets coming on over.
"Go home, Toto!" Dorothy pouted at her dog.
"Let me help you!" Toto barked to her as he continued to follow behind.
"You can't leave us behind! We wanna be part of the adventure!" Scruffy barked to the others.
"Toto, go home!" Dorothy told her dog.
Toto pouted as he found himself stopping from that and soon sat down, whimpering as he missed Dorothy already.
"Go home!" Dorothy told her dog before looking at her aunt. "Aunt Em, will he be all right?"
"He will." Aunt Em nodded.
"Yeah, he has Scruffy, Dot, Snow White, and Clifford." Mike said.
Toto soon pouted and howled for Dorothy.
"Go home!" Dorothy told her dog.
"Well, so much for that." Clifford sighed as it looked like they were staying behind.
"No way we're not being left behind." Scruffy shook his head.
"Huh?" Toto and Clifford asked.
"But they said to go home and they've gone on without us." Clifford replied.
"Like we haven't heard that one before." Dot hid a small smirk.
"Yeah, besides, sometimes it's alright to disobey." Snow White said.
Toto whimpered nervously.
"I dunno about this, guys," Clifford said. "I feel funny in my tummy if I do something different from what Emily Elizabeth tells me."
"She'll thank you later though," Dot replied. "The humans will all thank us later."
Meanwhile, Aunt Em continued to ride along with Dorothy beside her as they got further and further away from the farm.
'I'm sure everything will be perfectly fine.' Vincent thought to himself.
They soon rode up to a small building.
"Is that the doctor's office?" Max asked. "It's pretty small."
"Well, it is 1899." Emily Elizabeth reminded of the time period this movie was set in.
"Fair enough." Max shrugged from that.
"We're not there just yet, we're almost passing through Franklin." Aunt Em explained.
"Oh." Max said.
"I've never been past Franklin before." Dorothy remarked as they soon rode along.
The ride took quite a while, especially since they had to get around town without a car. They soon rode up to a large place that looked like a mansion and came to a stop as the horse stopped moving.
"So this is where we're meeting her doctor?" Akito asked.
"Yes," Aunt Em replied. "Dorothy has an appointment that should not be missed."
"I don't like the doctor." Dorothy pouted.
"Oh, I'm sure the doctor is a nice person." Emily Elizabeth smiled.
"...They can come in too, right, Auntie Em?" Dorothy soon asked.
"Only if they're quiet and behave themselves." Aunt Em replied.
"Yes, ma'am." Jetta smiled.
"Hey, I'm not too crazy about doctors either," Vaz said to Dorothy. "Especially when they give you shots... Then there's those cold ear things they put in your ears... And of course that stale tongue depressor... Yeah, I can't blame you for feeling scared."
Dorothy shivered a bit from that as Vaz wasn't really helping.
"I'm not helping, am I?" Vaz asked.
"What is wrong with you?" Charley asked Vaz.
"I-I'm sorry!" Vaz yelped. "I'm trying to help! Really!"
"We can tell." Jetta said.
Vaz grumbled at her for that.
They soon came to see the doctor as the key was given to him as he sat across from the others.
"The tin woodsman used to be made of flesh, like everybody else, but then he cut off his leg," Dorothy soon told the doctor who was named Dr. Worley everything that she remembered about Oz. "He had a tin leg made, but then a witch enchanted his ax, and he kept on cutting off the other parts of his body, until he was all made of tin. Even his head was-"
"That's all right, Dorothy," Dr. Worley interrupted her before he changed the subject. "You mentioned something about a tiger?"
"A lion," Dorothy clarified. "A cowardly lion."
"I don't like how this is going." Vincent whispered to the others.
Akito and Estelle both shook their heads, though they agreed with him on that. Felicity looked a bit sad for Dorothy as this had to be painful somehow.
"And he could talk too, like the scarecrow and the tin man?" Dr. Worley soon asked Dorothy about the cowardly lion.
"Yes, all the animals in Oz could talk." Dorothy nodded as her aunt looked concerned.
"Maybe you should have let Scruffy talk." Estelle whispered to her twin brother.
"Then the adventure would be cut short." Akito whispered back.
"Oh." Estelle then said bashfully.
"Believe me, I'd love to do that too, but it would make this whole journey pointless." Akito replied.
"You guys seem to know a lot about this kind of thing." Emily Elizabeth remarked.
"Yeah, it's just part of the adventurer lifestyle," Akito replied as Vincent nodded. "From our parents to us."
"Just how did you get back from Oz?" Dr. Worley soon asked Dorothy.
"With my ruby slippers." Dorothy explained.
"And exactly... How did that work?" Dr. Worley then asked.
"You put them on and you click the heels three times, and then you said, 'There's no place like home'." Dorothy stated simply.
"That does sound simple." Vaz whispered to the others.
"Dorothy, where are those slippers now?" The doctor soon asked.
Dorothy was quiet for a few moments before she looked at her aunt.
"Dorothy?" Aunt Em then prompted her niece.
"...I lost them," Dorothy then confessed. "They fell off on the way back."
"Well, I think I know just the thing to cheer Dorothy up," Dr. Worley soon said as he decided to leave his desk and came out to show the family something to help out, bringing out some sort of machine after giving Dorothy her key back. "This electrical marvel will make it possible for you to sleep again and it will also get rid of all those bad waking dreams that you've been telling me about." he then told the girl.
The group began to look uncomfortable at the sight of the machine.
"What do you mean by getting rid of her waking dreams?" Vaz asked the doctor.
"This will clear her mind about this world of Oz she keeps talking about," Dr. Worley replied as he showed the machine. "Now, this fellow here has a face. Do you see it?" he then asked as he showed Dorothy the machine to help take away any fear she had over it. "Here are his eyes, and this must be his nose, and this must be his mouth, but what's this? Dorothy?"
Dorothy just kept looking at him blankly in silence.
"Why, it's his tongue!" Dr. Worley chuckled as he continued to show her. "Isn't it?"
Dorothy and her new friends just gave him blank stares.
"Jetta..." Emily Elizabeth whispered as that sounded rude.
"What?" Jetta shrugged in defense.
"...Will it hurt?" Dorothy soon asked.
"No, no! It just manages electrical current," Dr. Worley replied calmly. "Now, your aunt already knows that we are at the dawn of a new age. In just two months, it will be the year 1900. A new century. The 20th century. A century of electricity," he then added before he turned on a lamp to turn the light on as this was a historical moment for the young kids to witness. "The brain itself is an electrical machine. It's nothing but a machine. When it malfunctions, a blow to the head, for example, then the brain produces useless excess currents. These excess currents are our dreams and delusions."
Dorothy listened, though she looked distracted as a blonde girl seemed to be in the machine, waving at Dorothy and the others, that Aunt Em and the doctor did not see.
"And we have found out that sometimes the brain malfunctions," Dr. Worley continued. "Just like the dreams that you have, Dorothy. Now we have the means to control these excess currents." he then finished, looking at Dorothy.
"Yes." Dorothy then nodded at that before trying to look for the girl again, though she was not there that time.
"Where'd she go?" Estelle whispered.
"You saw that too?" Emily Elizabeth whispered back.
"I sure did." Felicity nodded at them.
"Time to go." Aunt Em told her niece's new friends.
"Uh, sir, is that machine new?" Vaz asked the doctor.
"Oh, there's no need to worry," Dr. Worley reassured. "I've done this before and it will be very good for Dorothy. Now you ought to run along home since Dorothy needs to stay overnight."
'What do we do? Dorothy's bound to be on an adventure back to Oz.' Emily Elizabeth thought to herself.
Akito and Estelle looked over before glancing at each other.
'Estelle, I might have an idea.' Akito said, through their telepathic link that some twins shared with each other.
'Well, don't keep me in suspense,' Estelle replied. 'Let's hear it.'
'What if we let Aunt Em go on ahead and I'll try to use some crystal magic to make doubles of us to go home with her and we sneak in the back so we can be with Dorothy?' Akito suggested.
'That's perfect.' Estelle smiled.
"Mrs. Auntie Em, could we stay a little bit longer?" Akito and Estelle then spoke up innocently.
"I don't want your families to worry about you." Aunt Em told them.
"Oh, don't worry about our families, ma'am, we just wanna say goodbye and we'll meet you outside in a minute." Akito promised.
"Well... All right." Aunt Em said.
"We'll catch up with you, ma'am." Akito replied.
Aunt Em then walked off to give the kids some privacy.
"Okay, everybody line up," Akito smirked, especially to Max, Emily Elizabeth, Jetta, Charley, and Vaz. "You're about to see a magic trick."
"Now?" Jetta asked.
"Yeah!" Akito smiled.
"Oh, brother," Jetta crossed her arms. "I don't think this is the time for this, especially for a silly magic trick you probably saw on TV."
"It is not!" Akito replied firmly.
"Do your thing, Akito." Vincent told him.
"Watch this." Akito told Jetta before he closed his eyes and went into a position.
Jetta rolled her eyes a bit at first with a scoff. Akito soon began to glow which made Jetta's eyes widen before the glow came over the rest of the group and other forms of themselves seemed to split out from them, creating crystallized doubles of themselves.
"Whoa..." Jetta said.
"Ha! How's that? Miss Persnickety?!" Akito asked with a gaze at Jetta.
"Okay! Sorry, jeez..." Jetta replied.
"Anyways, we'll be sending our doubles with Aunt Em." Estelle said.
"How does that work?" Charley asked.
"Just watch us and wait here with us." Felicity replied.
The group looked confused before Aunt Em came to pick up the kids and to say goodbye to her niece for the night.
"I must get back to Henry before nightfall," Aunt Em said to her niece. "You understand, don't you?"
Dorothy silently nodded as she was with a worker.
"Here's your lunch pail," Aunt Em then said as she brought out food for Dorothy. "I was thinking we'd only stay a short time."
'Lunch sounds good.' Vaz thought to himself.
"That won't be necessary," Nurse Wilson reassured the woman. "We have excellent meals here."
"Now, be a good girl, and do everything the doctor and the head nurse tell you, and I'll be back tomorrow and we'll go home!" Aunt Em smiled at Dorothy to help make her feel more comfortable before looking at the doctor and nurse. "I've never left her out of my sight among strangers."
"She's in good hands." Dr. Worley reassured.
"Yeah, we're sure." Akito whispered to the others in sarcasm.
"Will you bring Toto and my new friends when you come to get me?" Dorothy asked softly.
"I will," Aunt Em smiled softly. "Yes, of course, I will." she then bent down and kissed her niece's head a bit before looking to the doubles of the group that came with Dorothy. "Come along now, all of you, we need to find out what to do with you lot."
The doubles soon began to follow Aunt Em outside, and she was blissfully unaware of what had really happened.
"Now?" Emily Elizabeth whispered to Akito.
"Not just yet." Akito whispered back.
"When?" Jetta whispered.
"Just be patient, Miss Fancy Pants." Akito told her.
"You got a problem with me or something?" Jetta glared in offense.
"Shh!" Akito shushed.
Nurse Wilson soon began to move Dorothy near where they were hiding.
"Okay, in that room," Akito pointed out to a door. "You said Dorothy's room was here, right, Emily Elizabeth?"
"Yeah, that should be it," Emily Elizabeth nodded. "I've watched this movie so many times."
"I'm having a bad feeling." Estelle said.
"So do I," Emily Elizabeth frowned. "I never liked this place much. I just wish Clifford could be here too."
They soon came in the room and began to hide as Dorothy was being ushered to the room.
"You won't need that!" Nurse Wilson said, taking Dorothy's lunch pail away from the girl.
Dorothy frowned before the door to her new room opened as they passed a man who wheeled away a bed for another patient.
"You stay here until we come and get you," Nurse Wilson then told Dorothy as they came into the room before she would shut her in for the time. "You may have a nap if you wish." she then pulled the door shut behind her, leaving the girl alone. Or so she thought.
"Now?" Vaz whispered to Akito.
"Probably, but be careful," Akito replied. "We don't wanna scare her."
Dorothy looked around the room as the others came out of hiding before she frowned as she stood on top of a chair and looked out her window as she saw her aunt leaving with her new friends. "Aunt Em..." she whispered sadly.
"Hey, Dorothy." Vaz said.
"Yaugh!" Dorothy yelped a bit.
"Sorry, we didn't mean to scare you." Mike said to the girl.
"W-What are you doing here?" Dorothy asked before looking out the window. "I thought you were with Auntie Em."
"Let's just say it's good to believe in magic," Akito replied. "Like we believe you about Oz."
"Oh, thank goodness." Dorothy sighed out of relief.
"I hate that you have to be locked up here," Emily Elizabeth frowned. "And without Toto."
"You're telling me," Dorothy frowned back. "I really don't like being here already."
Suddenly, another girl came in the room, much to their surprise as she had a Jack-O-Lantern in her hands. "This is for you." she then told Dorothy about what she had with her.
"Thank you." Dorothy said as she stepped down to take the Jack-O-Lantern.
"Where did she come from?" Jetta whispered to the others.
"Through the door?" Felicity replied like it was obvious. "Didn't you just see her?"
"No, I mean when did she come in without anyone seeing her or stopping her?" Jetta asked.
"Oh... I dunno..." Felicity shrugged.
"What's the Jack-O-Lantern for?" Vincent asked the girl who came in. "Is it Halloween already?"
"Almost." The girl replied as she let Dorothy take the Jack-O-Lantern.
Dorothy soon accepted the Jack-O-Lantern. "Thank you."
"But what's the Jack-O-Lantern for?" Estelle asked.
"Halloween...?" The girl said like it was obvious. "Don't you guys celebrate Halloween?"
"Yeah, but isn't it a bit early?" Jetta asked.
"It's never too early since it's almost the end of the month." The girl defended.
"I'm sure my mother would agree with that sentiment." Felicity replied.
"Why did they bring you here, Dorothy?" The girl soon asked Dorothy.
"Because I can't sleep," Dorothy pouted. "And I talk about a place that I've been to, but nobody believes it exists."
The others frowned softly as they felt bad for Dorothy. Suddenly, they heard some rumbling which startled them all a bit.
"I have to go," The girl suddenly said before she decided to leave the room right away. "I'll come back later."
"Wait, why?" Estelle asked. "What was that rumbling?"
"I think a storm might be coming." Charley warned.
"I'll make sure we're all safe," Max suggested. "Emily Elizabeth, you better come with me."
"Sure." Emily Elizabeth nodded.
"Why does he get to call the shots?" Mike growled. "Just because he's older than all of us and almost a teenager? Give me a break!"
It began to rain outside as thunder rumbled outside the hospital.
"I bet with the pets with us, this would be less scary." Jetta gulped.
"I don't know what's keeping them, but knowing them, they'll be on their way," Vincent remarked to himself. "Especially Snow White. I don't know what she would do without me."
It soon started to get a bit dark as Dorothy tried to enjoy the company of her new Jack-O-Lantern as it got darker outside due to the storm.
"Looks like that storm's not going away anytime soon," Vincent said as he looked out the window. "I just hope it's not WeatherVane."
"Nope, not possible." Estelle shook her head.
"Hey, can ya blame me?" Vincent replied. "That lady was nuts!"
"So were you." Akito smirked which made Vincent shoot him a deadpan look.
Eventually, it got very dark outside which also made the room dark, so Felicity turned on the light for them all.
"A thing I really miss right about now is TV," Jetta complained. "Can't one of you guys make a magic trick to make a TV appear or something?"
"And how would we explain to Dorothy about an invention that wouldn't exist for another 27 years?" Estelle asked.
"I don't care!" Jetta complained. "I'm just BORED!"
"You should be more concerned with us trying to get out of here." Mike said.
Akito soon turned over as he put his hand to his ear.
"Akito?" Emily Elizabeth asked. "What is it?"
"Someone's coming!" Akito replied.
"Oh, no!" Jetta panicked. "Where are we possibly going to hide?"
"Leave it to us," Estelle replied. "Dorothy, we'll be right here, but don't worry. Okay?"
"...Okay." Dorothy slowly nodded and she turned over.
Akito and Estelle then used their magic to make themselves and the rest of them invisible.
"Huh?" Jetta asked out of confusion.
"Shh!" Akito and Estelle shushed her.
Dorothy did her best to also keep quiet about the magic as she sat on her bed as someone came for her.
The door soon creaked open to show the head nurse who came to see Dorothy. "Would you like to go for a ride, Dorothy?" she soon asked the young girl.
Dorothy was silent for a few moments, not answering her verbally. Nurse Wilson merely glanced back, not going to take "no" for an answer. Dorothy then hoisted herself off of her bed and came to go with the head nurse.
"Emily Elizabeth, where is she going to be taking Dorothy?" Jetta whispered.
"It's time for her electrotherapy." Emily Elizabeth replied.
"So if we don't save her from that, will she forget all about Oz?" Jetta whispered.
"So you think the movie ends right here then?" Emily Elizabeth rhetorically asked as Nurse Wilson soon took Dorothy away out of the room.
"Never mind." Jetta said.
"Jetta, if you keep questioning these things, it's not gonna be very much fun for any of us." Estelle replied.
"All right, stop picking on me already." Jetta rolled her eyes.
The others sighed a bit from Jetta's behavior as she was making the adventure difficult for them.
"Besides, I would feel more concerned about them using electricity like this during a thunderstorm." Vincent then deadpanned at Jetta.
Eventually, the storm grew a bit worse and made the power go out.
"All right, Dr. Worley and Nurse Wilson should be leaving Dorothy alone in the room right about now." Emily Elizabeth told the others once they were visible again.
"Let's go see her then," Max then said as he held his hat. "Whoa, careful, guys. This hat is very special to me."
"Okay. Okay." Mike rolled his eyes.
"You okay?" Max asked Mike. "You seem grumpy about something."
"I'm fine," Mike grumbled a bit. "Let's just go already."
They soon rushed out of the room as they tried to ignore both the storm and screams heard.
"Emily Elizabeth, what's that screaming?" Vaz asked.
"You don't wanna know, Vaz." Emily Elizabeth replied.
"Are you guys gonna go help Dorothy too?" A voice asked them.
"Oh, please, let it be that girl from earlier." Vaz begged.
They soon turned around to see that it was.
"I gotta get Dorothy out of here," The girl said. "And you're going to help me. At least, I hope you're going to help me."
"Of course we are!" Charley replied. "We appreciate your help... Uh... I'm sorry, I don't think we caught your name." he then said to the girl.
"My name is... Judy." The girl stated.
"Nice to meet you, Judy." Akito said.
"Likewise," Judy nodded. "Now come on, let's go help Dorothy."
The others looked touched and happy that Judy wanted to help them help Dorothy as they soon went off together to look for the poor girl who was locked up in the dark.
Dorothy was strapped down to a gurney and had a pair of headphones over her ears as she sat in the dark before she gasped as the headphones were taken off her ears. "Who's there?" she then asked out of fear.
"Quick!" Judy told Dorothy as she began to unstrap the girl. "We have to get you out of here."
"Yeah, this place is as hospitable as a python." Vincent said.
Dorothy felt scared as she heard more screams. "What is that screaming?" she then asked.
"Patients who have been damaged, locked in the cellar," Judy replied as she got Dorothy out before taking her hand and running. "Quick!"
The others soon followed after the blonde girl as she took them down the hallways as the lights flickered on and off from the storm.
"I am truly hating this hospital!" Jetta screamed.
"Jetta, calm down!" Emily Elizabeth told the black-haired girl.
"We're gonna get caught!" Max added.
They soon heard someone coming.
"In here! Quick!" Dorothy panicked as she and Judy hid behind a couple of straitjackets.
Max and the others soon joined them. A security guard passed by with a flashlight and seemed to luckily just miss them. Once he was out of sight, the hiding kids soon got out and went back to running down the hallway before they ran down the stairs not too far away from them.
"I swear, after this, I am never going to see hospitals the same way again." Jetta said.
A light soon flashed on them.
"Aw, great!" Jetta complained. "Now what?"
"So..." Nurse Wilson glared as she caught them.
"RUN, GUYS, RUN!" Judy cried out as she led them to the door so they could escape.
The group wasted no time hesitating as they ran right after Judy and Dorothy.
"Come on!" Judy told them as they went out the door.
They soon ran out into the yard as it was raining heavily outside due to the storm. Nurse Wilson then tried to look out for them as she stood on the porch with her flashlight.
"Faster, guys, faster!" Judy called out as she led them away before Nurse Wilson began to chase them.
"I am seriously hating that woman!" Jetta cried out.
"She complains a lot I've noticed." Akito muttered.
"Spoiled brat," Vincent rolled his eyes. "I'm really starting to miss Jenny."
More people from the hospital rushed out to chase after the girls before Judy and Dorothy yelped as they accidentally fell in the mud.
"Eww!" Jetta complained from the mud. "My clothes!"
"Oh, now you care about those farm clothes." Mike smirked.
"I can change my opinion." Jetta said.
"You are just impossible," Mike muttered. "Why is Emily Elizabeth even friends with a girl like you?"
"STOP!" Nurse Wilson called out as she caught up to them.
Dorothy screamed before she got up to run with Judy and the others as they got out of the mud.
Judy yelped as she fell into the flooding water. "Guys, one of you grab my hand!" she then cried out.
Charley soon held his hand out to Judy. Judy grasped his hand before Charley yelped as he was taken for a ride in the flooded river too. Nurse Wilson soon came up right behind the group that were still on the riverbank.
"Guys! Jump!" Judy called out to the others.
Dorothy screamed once she saw Nurse Wilson before she jumped in with the others in the flood. Judy grabbed on the branch in front of her, but it broke off and they all began to get swept away by the water as Nurse Wilson tried to catch them.
"Wait for us!" Scruffy barked.
"Scruffy?" Akito muttered as he thought he heard his dog. "Is that you?"
Nurse Wilson soon ended up in the water next.
"Snow White, I know you hate getting your fur wet, but we have to save our pets." Scruffy told the kitten.
"Alright, alright, the rest of us are coming." Snow White said.
Clifford whimpered and pouted for Emily Elizabeth.
"Don't worry, Clifford, we're gonna save them," Scruffy promised. "Just follow my lead."
Clifford nodded from that. The pets soon jumped into the water. Snow White groaned and complained already, but she decided that saving Vincent was more important than how her fur looked.
"I think I see something coming up!" Felicity called out.
"What is it?" Estelle asked.
"I'm not sure, but I see bars... Like a cage..." Felicity replied.
"It must be an old crate," Akito guessed. "We should use that as a raft until we find dry land."
The others agreed as they helped themselves. They soon tried to do what they could to get into the crate as it floated along in the water. Emily Elizabeth hugged Clifford once she saw him and the two held onto each other as he whimpered worriedly.
"It's okay, Clifford, I'm here," Max smiled. "And I won't let anything bad happen to you, Emily Elizabeth, or anybody else."
Mike did his best to not let his green-eyed monster show. They all luckily made it into the crate as it floated along. Everybody held onto each other for protection as it was going to be a long and wet night. It soon seemed to stop raining as the full moon came out as they floated along.